Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I I Burns Famo CUT PRICE i?rnvniiii i ? ?mM?nrJ? DEPARTMENT STORE 1 IS ANY ARGUMENT NEEDED? The prices below tell the whole story. We know that the talk of hard times and tight money has induced a spirit of economy. But there are many thing's you need, and you want to buy them where you can get the most for your money. The mills wanted cash and we have bought at reduced prices. We have Bargains in all Lines. A few specimens follow: 3 Good yard-wide Sea Island, worth 6c, going now at $1.00 Alarm Clock, our price 4?c 5pc .lust received one cose of Pongee Silk Dress Conds. Sells everywhere at 25c per yard, our price while it | pr lasts, per yard 5c per y 25 Fresh Nutmegs Flower I'ots, por gallon .lust received big lot of Men's $3.50 Tan Shoes and Slippers. Going to sell them white they last $2.Q$ 10-lb. Box Baby Ruth Tobacco worth :>:.:;.">. Ourprico, per box $2?Q?5 5c cake Fairy Soap $2.00 Men's Fur Hats, Spe- i? d a q cial Cpa^c) Children's Slippers, Tan and Patent leather, going at ISc, 69 c, tj* J 5c cake Pumo Skin Soap 7 cakes Octagon Soap 12 cakes Polo Soap 4c 4 c 25c 25c Trunks and bags going at special prices, come and see. Buggy Whips, Big Deal, 9c, Lie, and 18c. Whip up Balem. Millinery, new arrivals, Roses in full bloom, come and see seeing is believ ing. Prices away down. $2.50 Ladies* Tan and Patent Leathei Slippers. Big value, going at '$2.10 $1.00 Watch going this week 5^C (i Nice While Plates I fSC G Nice Tumblers I 8?C 50c Agate Dish Pan ^5C $1.50 Men's Pants going now J |Q 50c Men's Shirts, Red Hot 1 II Shirt Button. 3oc 4c 25c Mexican Bamboo Hats, best work Hat 13C One nice set of Coblets 3^C $5*00 Men's fine Pants $3.48 One pair Men's Moleskin Pants 48c Clothing Specials this week, come and get your suit $7.39, %SS.Kl and ?lli.:i0 Suit. * 25 cents Men's Underwear 1 QC 35 cents Men's Drill Drawers 23c ' ..0 1 Men's Serge Coats $4.23 Six Spools Cotton (Best Six Cord) Jfor_25C Fight Balls of Thread 5C $3.50 Fight Day Clock $ 1 .98 10 lbs. good Coffee, parched or green for $1.00 Jewelry and Watches, special values :.t less money prices. Dress Goods. India Linen, Lawns, Laces, ISmbroidery. Bargains galore. Nickel Alarm Clocks. This Clock is usually sold at 75c. Our special price 50c. Boys' Wool Knee Pants. Made by one of the largest makers to Bell at 50c. Special 25c. Fast Color Chambry Ginghams. Worth 7ic. Special per yard 5c. Ladies' Tan Hose. All the rage. Fine gauge. Regular price 15c per pair. While they last, per pair 10c. Ladies' Embroidered Shirtwaists. Usually sells for $1.00. Our special price 50c. The Regular Stem-Wind Dollar Watch 59c._ Mennen's Talcum Powder and Colgate's Usually sold at 25c per box. Special at 13c. Decorated Crepe Paper. You always pay 15c per piece. Now _5c. Men's Dress Shirts. Detached cult's; all sizes. A 50 cent shirt for 35c. Ladies' Full Size Umbrellas. Large assortment fancy handles. A regular 75c value for 50c. Premium Washing Powd'r 5 cent package for 4c. Men's Pants. Made by Cleveland Woolen Mills. Sold everywhere at $1.50 pair. For this sale our price _$1.19 Heavy Blue Dem in Overalls. A regular 50c value; full sizes. Per pair 39c. Large Size Hemmed Huck Towels. Never sold for less than 25c per pair. Special per pair 19c. Table Oil Cloth. Good quality; 11 yards wide, yard 12 l=2c. pei Men's Dress Shirts Which usually sell at 40c to 50c, while they last, each 24c. Window Shades. Best quality. Have been selling at 30c. Now reduced to 23c. Shirting Prints. You have been buying them at 7c per yard. They're cheap at per yard, _ 4 l=2c. Men's Dress Shoes. Solid leather inner-soles; calf skin, blucher front. Worth $2.00 per pair. Special $1.23. 5,556 Yds. FineVal Laces. Worth regular 10c and 15c yard. We bought, them from factory "hard-up for cash." While lot lasts 5c yard. Red Iron Racket Come quick ! Goods don't stay at RED IRON RACKET long. Four Cut Price Stores? J. C. BURNS & Co., Originators of selling more goods for same money, same goods for less money in Laurens, Greonwood and Sparlanburg, s. c. I % I 1 I s $ 8 $ 1 SHAKESPEARE'S TOMB. Its Wculd Be Dcsecrators and the Poet's Imprecation. Tho foot that would bo dcsecrators of Shakespeare's tomb have not dared to risk tho falling Of the curse invoked in the lines cut upon his tomb is a strik ing testimony to the powerful effect upon mankind of such an Imprecation. J. o. Ilalliwoll-Philllpps, writing In the eighties, said: "The nearest approach to an excava tion In the grave of Shakespeare was made In tho summer of the year 170(5 jn digging a vault in the Immediate lo cality, when an opening appeared which was presumed to Iudicata the commencement of the site of the bard's remains. Tho most scrupulous care, however, was taken not to disturb the. neighboring earth in the slightest de gree, the clerk having been placed there till the brickwork of the adjoin ing vault was completed to prevcnl any one making an examination. No relics w hatever w ere \ Islble through the small opening that thus presented Itsolf, and as the poet was buried in tho ground, not In a vault, the great probability is that dust alone remains. It Is not many years since a phalanx of trouble tombs, lanterns and spade.-, in hand, assembled in the chancel at llcnd of niglit, Intent on disobeying the solemn Injunction that the bones of Shakespeare woro not to he disturbed. But the supplicatory linos prevailed. There were Koine ninotlg the number who at the last moment refused to in cur the warning condemnation, and so the design was happily abandoned." A correspondent of the London Athe naeum wrote in 1881; "I remember on a visit to the grave of Shakespeare in or 1828 remarking that it was lit tle creditable to the authorities that the raised covering to the tomb should have been allowed to fall into such de cay, for I could see Into the grave through the hole formed by the sinking of tin? stones. The reply was that, 'on account of the anathema Inscribed upon the tomb,' no workmen could be per suaded to meddle With it." An earlier incident is thus set forth by a contributor to the Monthly Mag azine of Fob. 1, 1818: "Notwithstanding the anathema pro nounced by the bard on any disturber of his bones, the church wardens were so negligent a few years ago as to suffer tho sexton in diguing the ad joining grove of Dr. Davenport to break n largo cavity Into the tomb of Shakespeare. Mr.-told i'ne writer that be was excited by curiosity to push Ids bead and shoulders through the cavity, that be saw the remains i/f tlie bard and that be eonld easily have brought away his skull, but was de terred by tho curse which tho poet in voked on any ono who disturbed bis remains." Tho attempt at a later day to mid dle with the tomb hod no moro effec i - ? ititiir Trow York Tribuns Sontki American Animals. .Many curious animals haunt the marshy parts of South America north of (he pampas. Frogs big and fero cious (tho eeratophyrs), given to mak ing Vicious springs when closely ap proached; tho capybara, a cavy "con tented with the bulk of thoshoopj" the huge coyptl rat and the swarthy tapir are frequently seen. Along the forest margins troops of peccaries are often mot with, occasionally the jaguar, Sometimes the ptlUiu; likewise that toothless curiosity the groat ant bear, long in claw, long nosed and remark ably long tongued. Very plentiful, too, are those "little knights In scaly ar mor," tiie ipiaint, waddling nruiadil loes. Long toed jacanas pace about Upon the floating leaves. A familiar object is the great jablru, a stork with a preference for the desolate lagoons, Where it may often be observed statu es.pn- itii one leg and wrapped in pro spect ion. (Jig Tips For Little Favors. "It is surprising," said a veteran Pullman porter, "how big a tip a por ter sometimes gels for doing a very little thing." Me added: "A passenger once tipped me extra because he said 1 did not leave Ids Shoestrings coiled up inside his shoes after I had blacked them, lie said nothing made him madder than to slip on his shoes In a hurry in a sleeper only to find that he had to take them off again becnuso the shoestrings were Inside. I'.ver since that time 1 have been careful not to leave shoestrings inside of the shoes I black, and more than one passenger has thanked DQO for being thoughtful. But It wasn't me that did the thinking. The tip did thut for me, and I nuver forgot it."?Les lie's Weekly. In the Right Direction. Bishop Blom field was one of the many witty Englishmen whose good things have found their way Into a volume of reminiscences, "Leaves From I he NotelKioks of Lady Dorothy Net-Ill." Bishop Dlomfield was led into a con troversy one time with a learned man as to the mental superiority of tho east over the west, and his opponent as a parting shot said: "Well, at any rate, you can't dispute that the wise men camu from the < nst." "Surely 1 lint was the wisest thing they could do!" retorted the bishop. A Futile Boast. "Love me and the world is mine," ho said. "What's the use of saying that?" she replied. "I've been loving yon for weeks and you haven't even succeeded in getting a good job."?Chicago Hec ord-IJernld. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.?II mo. dc lllcux. Ail Three Kinds. There is a village in New England which clings fondly to iho customs of the past and has small regard for Inno vat Ions. Not long ago an old resident died. The lawyer who went up to set lie the family affairs stayed overnight at tin? lit tic inn. He was a dyspeptic and ever cautious about his food. Therefore ho looked Bearchlngly at the waitress as she stood at the breakfast table the next morning to grccUhlm. "I'm?er? obliged to be very careful of myself," he said solemnly. "My diet is extremely limited. What sort of breakfast food have you? That Is all I tako In the morning except dry toast." "Wo have apple, squash and mince," said the girl, regarding him In kindly and sympathetic fashion. "You can take your choice or have all three If you like."?Youth's Companion. Molbourno and tho Garter. Lord .Melbourne scorns to have held tho title holder in legitimate contempt. Tho London Chronicle reminds irs that once When that statesman was Invited by his secretary to grant an interview to an Importunate applicant for a title ho exclaimed wearily: "What the mis chief dOCS he want DOW? Does he want a garter for the Othor leg?" Melbourne himself was pressed by QtlCOU Victoria to accept the blue ribbon, but 1)0 de clined. "A garter," hooxplalned, "may attach to us somebody of consequence whom nothing else can rench, but what would be the use of :ny taking It? 1 cannot bribe myself." Hiding Places of Diamonds. If the Regent diamond as shown In the Louvre is only a model In paste and the real stone Is hidden away. It is a case of history repeating itself, for in 1707 when the Regent diamond was pawned for house furniture to Vanden bcrg, a banker of Amsterdam, and ho was remonstrated with upon the dan ger of exhibiting It to the public he replied: "The Rogont that Is In tho glass case Is a sham. The real Regent Is In my wife's stays."?Tall Mall Oa zette. For tho Next One. Nnggor- I've put one poor chap on his feet, anyway. Mrs. Nagger?Whom have you been fooling your money away on now? Nagger - - Your next husband, madam 1 I've had my life In sured.? London Tolegraph. Tart Advice. Aged Admirer Think of all tho lux uries a rich husband liko me could give you! Miss De Young?Oh, a rich father would do Just ns well I Marry my mother!?London Standard. If all men were as Industrious as some men aro curious, what a busy place this world would be.?Somorvllle Journal. It Ih easy to Improve what hns al ready boon iuvontod.- Latin Provetb. Thought Ho \ The Man With tho (.am (boastfully 1 ami cynically)?I have been engaged to at least a dozen girls. Miss Sweet Girl (looking annoyed)?And always been unlucky in love, eh? He?Oh, I don't know. I've never married any of them. What??Philadelphia Inquirer. Not Attractive. ' Was it a case of love at first sight?" asked the sentimental girl. "It couldn't have been," answered Miss Cayenne. "When they first met he was Avcarlng football clothes and she had on her motor car costume."? Washington Star. Related. Persons prosaically concerned with (lie present perhaps lack sympathy with those genealogists whose souls aro ohscsscd with a worship of mi ? OS try. A number of these unregenor ntes found amusement In the remarks of two clubwomen with a long lino of forefathers, The two women were COOSins. They wero discussing a new acquaintance. "By the way," said one, "what did Mr. Blank mean by snying bo is re lated to us? How is be related to us? Is it a near relationship?" "oh, yes." answered the other in deadly seriousness; "wo aro both de scended from the liantagenets." Several heathen near by actually snickered, but the daughters of the PlnntngonetS couldn't fee anything to ! laugh at.?Now York Times. Why Toast Is Popular. The Increasing popularity of tonst, says the London Lancet, Is a somewhat Interesting fact in that it possibly Indi cates that, after all, the public resents Hit; Insipidity of modern bread. Koller milling as now practiced, which Is alto gether different from the old method id' grinding wheat between stones, lends to the elimination of the germ of (ho wheat. The peculiar nutty flavor of the old fashioned loaf was duo per haps to the retention of this germ. Missionary Work. "So you once lived in Africa, Sam?" "Vas. sah." "J'.ver do any missionary work out there. Sam?" "Ob, yas, sah; I was cook for a can nibal chief, snh!"?Yonkers Statesman. Against the Laws. "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Tor kins, "Is It against tho laws to win money on horse races?" "Yes; against ttie laws of chance."? Washington Star. Truthful. "I thought you said when 1 hired you that yotl didn't drink." "I didn't at that time. I couldn't af ford to drink until I got a Job."? Hrooklvn Life. Chamberlain's Cough Kemedy Cures Colds. Croup and WlioopinR Cough THE MASTERPIECE. It Is Produced on tho Average at the Age of Fifty. Tin? "minimum bonum" of n man's life?who shall say when or what it is in any given case? It becomes almost a work of supererogation to attempt to designate any Slnglo act or perform* auce as the one most valuable In any man's career. Reduced to tho ulti mate, it becomes, after all, only tho expression of an individual opinion, nave In those striking Instances in which by general consent a certain achievement is recognized as the man's greatest work. No one would deny that In "Paradise Lost" Milton attained the highest expression of his mentality, that Wellington achieved his greatest fame when la* won the field of Water loo, that Bacon's "Novmn Organum" Is his greatest accomplishment and that "Don Quixote" exceeds anything else that Cervantes ever did. In other life records one act may appear equal to another at different stages In the man's development, or to one observer the In fluence of one deed may far outweigh that of another, and contrariwise. This difficulty hns been exceedingly hard to overcome and without any attempt at dogmatism, but with the earnest desire to ascertain tho truth ns far as may he possible, hns the decision been made in tho disputable records. Having been nrranged In this man ner, the records give an average age of fifty for the performance of the nm8terwork. For the -workers the av erage age Is forty seven and for the thinkers fifty-two. Chemists and physi cists average the youngest m forty-one; dramatists and playwrights, poets and Inventors follow nt forty-four; novel ists give an average of forty-six, ex plorers and warriors forty-seven, mu sical composors and notors forty eight, artists and d I vinos oocupy the position of equilibrium at fifty, essayists and reformers stand at fifty-one, physicians and surgeons line up with the states men at fifty-two. philosophers give an average of fifty-four, astronomers and mathematicians, satirists and humor ists reach fifty-six, historians fifty seven and naturalists and jurists fifty eight. As mny bo noted, there Is a re arrangement of the order nt this time, but the thinkers, as before and as would naturally be oupected, attain their full maturity at a lator period than the workers. Tho corollary Is evident. Provided health and optimism romnln, the mnn of fifty can command success as read ily as the man of thirty. Health plus optimism rend the secret of success; the one Ood given, tho other Inborn olflo, but cnpnble of cultlvntlon to tho point of enthusiasm.??Wi A. Newman Dorlnnd In Century. The Sign of Wedlock. She?What Is the proper formula for a wedding announcement? lie?J know What Is ought to bei She?What? He? "Be It known by theso presents."?-Bal timore American. - LAIJf?JBN8 MAN TO TAK E TIIE EXAMINATION FOR CONSUL. Mr. Archie Willis, of Gray Court, this county, who graduates next month from Wofford College, will tnko the examination at Washington for ap pointment in the consular service abroad. Says the Spnrtanburg Herald of Mr. Willis in this connection: J. Archie Willis, of the graduating class of Wofford College, was on -May 7th designated by President Roosovclt to take the examination for consul abroad. Mr. Willis is a young man of splendid ability and has that energy about him that is characteristic of men wdio do things. As a student of Wof ford he has shown great talent as a w riter, putting out some of tho best stories and poems that have appeared from the pen of the college man. lie has many friends in Spnrtanburg who wish him well in any good work that he. may undertake;. Local and Personal Mention. The Rev. W. K. Cullender is spending today in Columbia. Mrs. Lewis Meng is visiting Mrs. Will Meng in Sumter. Miss Ktnma Richardson, of Clinton, Spent Saturday in the city. Mrs. .1. 11. Montgomery, of Spartan burg, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lamar Smith. Mr. .1. W. Clarke is visiting Mrs. C. B. (bay. Mrs. T. F. .Jones, of Woodrull', spent Sunday in the city. Miss Effio Strickler has returned to her home in Virginia after a visit to her sister, Mrs. nankin. Mrs. .1. A. Fowler and Miss Carolina Fowler, of Ora, spent Wednesday and Thursday in the city. Miss Janie Feathorstono, of Ander son, is visiting the family of her broth er, Mr. C. C. Feathorstono. Mrs. C. C. Feathorstono and children will go to BlackvillO Saturday to visit. Mrs. Feathorstone's parents, Rev. and Mrs. .lohn 1). Pitts. Large quantities of the vitrified brick which are to be used in paying the pub* lie Square, are beirig hauled from tin; depot and laid on tho ground this week. The Right Reverend W. A. (Juorry, I). D., bishop of this diocese, will visit Laurcns next Tuesday and on Tuesday evening at S:15 o'clock he will preach at the Church of the ESpiphnny. A cor dial invitation is extended to the public to attend this service. Mr. HumieD. Burdino, Of New York, who has beotl visiting his father at Cray Court, spent Monday night in Laurcns. Nice rains fell in Ibis section Monday night. Mr. Qco, M. McDnniol, who has been unite ill at his home here for the past lew weeks, sull'ored a change for the. worse Monday and his condition yester day afternoon was very critical.